When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYSometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea – What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?
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I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.
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Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, – To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
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